Chapter 397 - Rest and Business 1 (1/2)

So Jake soon returned to the game and his teammates and Staples he was defending against realized that Jake looked faster and better as he was at the beginning of the game, but the difference was not so great that they thought it was because he had rested for a while.

No one had realized that the only weakness that Jake had for this game was gone and in the 12 minutes before the game was over Jake would be playing with the best he had, the Tar Heels team players were more tired now.

But the players on the V.i.r.g.i.nia Cavaliers team were also more tired from playing at such a fast pace throughout the game, so in the final part of the game, only Jake was getting the maximum performance out of him.

In another play Staples tried to make a three-point shot and Jake hindered him and so he missed, Jamison managed to catch the rebound and held for a while before passing the ball to Jake, Jake advanced slowly and after passing through the middle of the court he started to ball to Carter from the left.

Carter received the ball and advanced slowly, he was also tired after trying so hard in the last game and in that game too, the last three games were tiring for the Tar Heels team and he and Jamison who were important to the team were very tired after that.

Carter advanced the ball to the three-point line and passed the ball to Okulaja who was on the right, Okulaja tried to advance, but the V.i.r.g.i.nia Cavaliers team's defense soon started to press him, who passed it to Jamison on the left.

Jamison received the ball with two players in defense against him, so Jamison passed the ball to Jake who was further behind, Jake was quick and took advantage of being free to make the shot from outside to make three more points for the Tar Heels team.

In the final part of the game, Jake made a lot of defense and also helped the Tar Heels team to increase the advantage on the scoreboard, so the game ended and the Tar Heels team won with 81 points against the V.i.r.g.i.nia Cavaliers' 49 points.

In that 2nd half Jake played for 18 minutes and managed to score 17 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, 5 steals, and 3 blocks, it was another double-double and excellent performance for Jake in that game and after that, the crowd would be happy with him again.

”And so the game ends with another victory for the Tar Heels team, it was a good game that ended with the Tar Heels team winning quietly, but that game was more difficult for them because the players were tired.”

”Jake came back very well for the team after being criticized for not having played in the last game even though he had no problems, he was instrumental in the Tar Heels team having achieved this comfortable victory.”

”The team still missed Shammond Williams who cannot play in this game and the team's defense was weaker than expected, in the next game all the players on the Tar Heels team must be in the best physical condition and these problems will not exist.”

”That's right, now there are only 4 games left to finish the conference games, then the ACC tournament will start, and the next 4 opponents are very difficult to face and the Tar Heels team will have a hard time.”

The game luckily ended well with the victory of the Tar Heels team, after which the team would have a sequence of 3 games playing at home at the Dean Smith Center, in addition, after the next game the players will have a week of rest before the final 3 games of the conference.

Jake was very tired after the game and would have to take the next few days to fully recover before the next game, he had already decided that he would never run a marathon in Asia again without having many days to rest in the city before and after the marathon.

Shammond Williams would also surely be rested in the next game and they would have the full team, contrary to what everyone expected the sports media did not comment much on the Tar Heels team game and Jake's good performance.

It would be very strange if they spoke well of Jake again after speaking so badly of him during the last few days, the sports media was not like the entertainment media that can make up lies and change a person's opinion several times just to gain more audience.

The next day the players did not have training so that they could recover completely before the next game, Jake was also resting and had been running and training for the marathon for almost a week.

He wanted to recover completely before training and Coach Davis knew that yet Zack was still training every day and after so long training he looked more and more like an elite marathon runner.

Running a full marathon was easy for him to do and Zack's next goal would be to run a marathon in less than 3 hours, now Zack had the support of Jake, his friends, and even his family who were seeing how Zack had improved after more than a year of training.